Boundaries of touch parenting and adult-child intimacy

A history of the shifting and conflicting ideas about when, where, and how we should touch our children. Discussing issues of parent-child contact ranging from breastfeeding to sexual abuse, Jean O'Malley Halley traces the evolution of mainstream ideas about touching between adults and children...

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1. Verfasser: Halley, Jean O'Malley (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Urbana u.a. Univ. of Illinois Press 2007
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Zusammenfassung:A history of the shifting and conflicting ideas about when, where, and how we should touch our children. Discussing issues of parent-child contact ranging from breastfeeding to sexual abuse, Jean O'Malley Halley traces the evolution of mainstream ideas about touching between adults and children over the course of the twentieth century in the United States. Debates over when a child should be weaned and whether to allow a child to sleep in the parent's bed reveal deep differences in conceptions of appropriate adult-child contact. In addition to contemporary periodicals and self-help books on child rearing, Halley uses information gathered from interviews she conducted with mothers ranging in age from twenty-eight to seventy-three. Throughout, she reveals how the parent-child relationship, far from being a private or benign subject, continues as a highly contested, politicized affair of keen public interest.--From publisher description.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XIV, 202 S.
ISBN:9780252032127
978-0-252-03212-7